the cradle will fall
Jun. 27th, 2014 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaI overslept until 10 somehow* and wasn't able to get to Worcester, so I checked out the Davis Museum instead. It's larger than I expected. I was expecting a dinky one floor gallery, I got three stories, which included some well-known artists, e.g. Kokoscha and Sargent and Pollock, and some things like Deplacement optique (a spinning helix of pink plastic, surrounded by a semicircle of mirrors) and Glass Heart (an ode to Sylvia Plath: LED lights under bell jars, when touched, the lights change and emit a soprano voice, a cello, a piano, a synthesizer, and a bit of percussion and electronics. Meanwhile, from other rooms, the hum of fluorescent lights, choral music from a film** mixed in, it made me think I was in Orphan's Cradle, if Orphan was planning to take over Gran Pulse by aestrogenating(sic) the water supply.), a mosaic from Antakya, an ultrarealistic sculpture of a man and a pot of stargazer lilies hanging upside down, some ropes made out of bronze, some mirrors with faces or markings smeared on them, a photograph of the Great Mosque of Djenné with some sand smeared on the bottom and a hanging conch shell.
Things aren't grouped by place or by time, they appear to be bunched together by theme. So there are Akan and Yoruba masks and Moche pottery in the same location as Roman statues and medieval paintings.
*On Wednseday, I woke up at about 5:05 AM, a combination of lovesickness/ nervousness and the fact that it was bright out that early. I went to bed at 1 AM on Thursday and woke up at 7, a combination of lovesickness and summer.
**I didn't watch it, as I noticed it around 12:40 or so, and it was an hour long film that started every hour on the hour. I'd tell you to look it up on Youtube but fuck if I remember the guy's name, all I know is that it mixed his own life with the life of Frederic Chopin (who didn't write choral music) or something. And he was Dutch.
i also bought Fiddlehead and The Wall Around Eden after failing to buy Infinite Jest.
You can find part of the composition Glass Heart here. Just be aware that there exists no complete recording of it. To repeat my experience, play Empty Hum by Celer and Ralph Vaughan Williams' Mass in G Minor at a softer volume.
burning question: If there were semi-affiliated bands called Orange Lazarus, Grape Judas, and Lime Balthazar, what kind of music would they play? I agree with whomever said "shoegaze, psychedelic, and jangle-pop," in that order. Just not "psychedelic hard rock," just psychedelic psychedelic. And he said "jangly indie rock". And Lime Balthazar is definitely not techno. Impressionist electronica, maybe, but not techno. Only Grape Judas could be techno.
There are others, but I can't read them. I think one might be Raspberry Jezebel, which would be an all-girl garage punk band. Something first sight. Very Cherry Berry? There's got to be a Melchior and Gaspar in there.
I know these guys because I've played Chrono Trigger multiple times.
Things aren't grouped by place or by time, they appear to be bunched together by theme. So there are Akan and Yoruba masks and Moche pottery in the same location as Roman statues and medieval paintings.
*On Wednseday, I woke up at about 5:05 AM, a combination of lovesickness/ nervousness and the fact that it was bright out that early. I went to bed at 1 AM on Thursday and woke up at 7, a combination of lovesickness and summer.
**I didn't watch it, as I noticed it around 12:40 or so, and it was an hour long film that started every hour on the hour. I'd tell you to look it up on Youtube but fuck if I remember the guy's name, all I know is that it mixed his own life with the life of Frederic Chopin (who didn't write choral music) or something. And he was Dutch.
i also bought Fiddlehead and The Wall Around Eden after failing to buy Infinite Jest.
You can find part of the composition Glass Heart here. Just be aware that there exists no complete recording of it. To repeat my experience, play Empty Hum by Celer and Ralph Vaughan Williams' Mass in G Minor at a softer volume.
burning question: If there were semi-affiliated bands called Orange Lazarus, Grape Judas, and Lime Balthazar, what kind of music would they play? I agree with whomever said "shoegaze, psychedelic, and jangle-pop," in that order. Just not "psychedelic hard rock," just psychedelic psychedelic. And he said "jangly indie rock". And Lime Balthazar is definitely not techno. Impressionist electronica, maybe, but not techno. Only Grape Judas could be techno.
There are others, but I can't read them. I think one might be Raspberry Jezebel, which would be an all-girl garage punk band. Something first sight. Very Cherry Berry? There's got to be a Melchior and Gaspar in there.
I know these guys because I've played Chrono Trigger multiple times.
